SVGTextContentElement: lengthAdjust property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The lengthAdjust read-only property of the SVGTextContentElement interface reflects the lengthAdjust attribute of the given element. It takes one of the LENGTHADJUST_* constants defined on this interface.

Value

An SVGAnimatedEnumeration.

Examples

Accessing the lengthAdjust Property

html
<svg width="200" height="100">
  <text id="myText" x="10" y="50" textLength="100" lengthAdjust="spacing">
    Hello, SVG!
  </text>
</svg>
js
const textElement = document.getElementById("myText");

// Access the `lengthAdjust` property
const lengthAdjust = textElement.lengthAdjust;

// Log the base value of the `lengthAdjust` attribute
console.log(lengthAdjust.baseVal); // Output: 1 (e.g. LENGTHADJUST_SPACING)

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# __svg__SVGTextContentElement__lengthAdjust

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
lengthAdjust
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 1 (Release date: 2008-12-11)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 1.5 (Release date: 2005-11-29)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 12.1 (Release date: 2012-11-20)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 3 (Release date: 2007-10-26)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 4 (Release date: 2011-03-29)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 12.1 (Release date: 2012-10-09)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 3 (Release date: 2011-02-22)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support

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Full support
Full support

See also